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Mon, 19 Mar 2018 22:27:06 -0400Joomla! - Open Source Content Managementen-gbnoreply@vachristian.org (Virginia Christian Alliance)Promoting the Sanctity of Human Life and the Right to Life for the Baby in the Wombhttp://vachristian.org/Sanctity-of-Life/Promoting-the-Sanctity-of-Human-Life-and-the-Right-to-Life-for-the-Baby-in-the-Womb.html
http://vachristian.org/Sanctity-of-Life/Promoting-the-Sanctity-of-Human-Life-and-the-Right-to-Life-for-the-Baby-in-the-Womb.htmlRefuting the culture of death as in abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, suicide & doctor-assisted suicide, Abortifacients, cloning & embryonic stem cell research, and the killing of excess babies, as in in-vitro-fertilization (selective reduction).

Introduction

In today’s humanistic culture, individuals are tinkering with ethical boundaries in science, namely genetics, pushing research and experimentation to the limit. In 1973, the monumental court case, Roe v. Wade, altered the bioethical playing field in the United States forever. For the first time in history, a mother could kill her unborn child without any legal consequences. Years later, a sheep named Dolly was cloned in a Scottish laboratory, and scientists around the world claimed they could clone human beings next. Likewise, stem cell research is one of the pivotal debates of the twenty-first century. In-vitro fertilization poses severe ethical concerns because it often leads to the destruction of excess embryos. Infanticide, euthanasia, and suicide, while not necessarily “scientific,” are issues also facing our modern “culture of death.”

Breaking the law doesn't help your chances for earning federal dollars -- but apparently, it doesn't hurt them either! If there's one thing Planned Parenthood's learned over the last few years, it's that crime doespay. A lot, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Despite piles of evidence (some of it from the group's own mouth) that Cecile Richards's group was illegally selling baby body parts (after performing equally illegal late-term abortions), a new report shows the wrongdoing hasn't made the slightest dent in its taxpayer-funded gravy train -- at least on the federal level.

Today, PragerU released a video narrated by Lila Rose, founder and president of Live Action.

In five-and-a-half minutes, the video exposes the essential facts about Planned Parenthood, going beyond the usual talking points recited by America’s abortion corporation. As Rose says, “This organization claims it’s a healthcare provider. But it’s not involved in preserving life. It’s involved in ending life.” (MUST SEE VIDEO AT END OF ARTICLE)

PragerU and Rose go through the gamut of issues generally raised about Planned Parenthood. Don’t they show women ultrasounds, for instance? Well, the fact is that “the last thing Planned Parenthood wants to do is show a woman an image of her growing child. So they don’t.” An earlier investigative video released by Live Action showed how the abortion corporation uses ultrasounds for — get this — abortions, and that the majority of its facilities refuse to offer an ultrasound to a woman who is not committed to abortion. Get an ultrasound, get an abortion: that’s the equation at Planned Parenthood.

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 9, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Text messages recently released between FBI agent Peter Strzok and his mistress FBI attorney Lisa Page — both of whom are anti-Trump — reveal them saying that they "hate" pro-lifers and wanted to find an excuse to cancel the 2016 March for Life in Washington, D.C.

In what was intended to be a private message, Page told Strzok that "I truly hate these people," referring to pro-lifers attending the January 22, 2016, March for Life in the nation's Capitol. Strzok then replied that the authorities should lie about a “snow emergency” to "cancel the permit" and stop the march.

Every year, on Jan. 22, we are reminded of what can happen when the rule of man prevails over the rule of law. On this date in 1973, seven men made a factually, legally and morally flawed decision that has resulted in the deaths of more than 60 million innocent lives, to date. They declared that our Constitution, constructed on the premise that government exists to protect the lives of its citizens, requires every state to permit the deadly practice of abortion.

]]>jbayard316@verizon.net (Rita Dunaway | WND)Sanctity of LifeTue, 30 Jan 2018 13:28:25 -0500Trump declares Roe v. Wade abortion anniversary to be ‘Sanctity of Human Life Day’http://vachristian.org/Sanctity-of-Life/Trump-declares-Roe-v.-Wade-abortion-anniversary-to-be-Sanctity-of-Human-Life-Day.html
http://vachristian.org/Sanctity-of-Life/Trump-declares-Roe-v.-Wade-abortion-anniversary-to-be-Sanctity-of-Human-Life-Day.htmlWASHINGTON, D.C., January 22, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – President Donald Trump proclaimed Monday, January 22, 2018, "National Sanctity of Human Life Day." The proclamation comes on the 45th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that legalized abortion in the U.S. throughout the entire nine months of a mother’s pregnancy.

Trump made the proclamation on Friday, as hundreds of thousands of pro-life pilgrims converged upon Washington D.C. for the annual March for Life.

“Today, we focus our attention on the love and protection each person, born and unborn, deserves regardless of disability, gender, appearance, or ethnicity,” begins Trump’s proclamation.

“Reverence for every human life, one of the values for which our Founding Fathers fought, defines the character of our Nation,” Trump continued in the proclamation. “Today, it moves us to promote the health of pregnant mothers and their unborn children.”

It goes without saying that until every single baby is safe and secure in his or her own mother’s womb, we pro-lifers have a lot of work to do. But I for one am quite happy to celebrate the various wins we are having along the way. And in the US at least we keep seeing a number of victories which should encourage us all.

The indicators of a pro-life surge there are many. For example, abortion mills continue to close down, which is always a good thing. Sure, new ones may spring up, but last year closures led the way. As one report puts it:

The authors of 2 of the most notorious, deadly theories/rulings predicted that if their assumptions proved false, their conclusions would collapse.

The first is Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. Darwin said if no transitions of fossils were found then his theory would not be valid.

The other is the Supreme Court ruling in Roe v Wade. Justice Harry Blackmun, said it would collapse if ‘the fetus is a person.’

While millions of bones have been examined no convincing transitions have been found. However, biology teachers and scientist continue to support evolution. (If Darwin was around hopefully he would say ‘I was wrong.’)

Human life beginning at conception is a fact of basic biological science. (If Blackmun was around he would probably not change because he knew the truth when he wrote the opinion.)

Why then are both still supported by the public?

]]>jbayard316@verizon.net (Greene Hollowell)Sanctity of LifeThu, 11 Jan 2018 13:22:44 -0500Pro-life win: Kentucky may be the first state without an abortion facilityhttp://vachristian.org/Sanctity-of-Life/Pro-life-win-Kentucky-may-be-the-first-state-without-an-abortion-facility.html
http://vachristian.org/Sanctity-of-Life/Pro-life-win-Kentucky-may-be-the-first-state-without-an-abortion-facility.htmlByKelli | LIVE ACTION

EMW Women’s Surgical Center in Louisville, Kentucky, is the last remaining abortion facility in the state. Its sister center in Lexington closed down in 2017 because of unacceptable health conditions at the facility. Live Action News’ Carole Novielli noted in July, “A report written by the Lexington Herald in June of 2016 indicates that when inspectors visited on the Lexington facility on February 17 that year, ‘they reported that employees told them the clinic only performed abortions’ and they found ‘dirty conditions and expired medicine.’ News reports also indicate that state inspectors found unsanitary conditions.”

]]>jbayard316@verizon.net (Kelli at Live Action)Sanctity of LifeSun, 07 Jan 2018 07:44:42 -0500The top pro-life stories of 2017 that moved and inspired ushttp://vachristian.org/Sanctity-of-Life/The-top-pro-life-stories-of-2017-that-moved-and-inspired-us.html
http://vachristian.org/Sanctity-of-Life/The-top-pro-life-stories-of-2017-that-moved-and-inspired-us.htmlNancy Flanders | LIVE ACTION

2017 was another big year in the pro-life movement. While Planned Parenthood remains funded by the federal government, with the inauguration of President Donald Trump came big wins for preborn people. Pro-lifers watched and prayed with families fighting for their children’s lives and fought back when facing resistance. With stories that made us cry and stories that made us cheer, these are the top pro-life stories of 2017.

The life and death of Charlie Gard

The biggest pro-life story of 2017 is the life of Charlie Gard. Little Charlie from the UK was placed on life support after becoming ill just a few months after birth. After being diagnosed with a rare mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, Charlie’s parents found a doctor in the United States willing to help with an experimental treatment, but Great Ormond Street Hospital refused to allow the family to take Charlie out of the country for treatment and told parents they planned to withdraw Charlie’s life support.

Planned Parenthood promotes itself as a healthcare provider, but in reality, it performs less than 1 percent of all Pap smears and less than 2 percent of all breast exams in the entire nation. Planned Parenthood’s real focus is abortion. That one “service” alone makes Planned Parenthood more money than any other it provides. When pregnant women come to Planned Parenthood, they are often subjected to an aggressive sales pitch encouraging them to choose abortion. A first trimester procedure is explained below by Dr. Anthony Levatino, a former abortionist:

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 7, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is officially investigating Planned Parenthood for selling baby body parts, more than two years after the release of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) videos.

“It is time for public officials to finally hold Planned Parenthood and their criminal abortion enterprise accountable under the law,” said David Daleiden of CMP.

Fox News broke the story Thursday evening, reporting that they had obtained a letter from Justice Department Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Stephen Boyd to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. This letter asked for unredacted documents from that committee, which had been investigating Planned Parenthood.

FLORIDA, November 23, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) -- Healthcare, women's rights, and social justice are all good things, until they are taken over and used by the enemy to kill by abortion and now euthanasia, said a Catholic priest during a National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children in a video published on Youtube November 22.

“The enemy has co-opted the language,” said Father Michael Orsi, former Ave Maria Law School chaplain, in a speech during the September 9 event in Florida.

We want everyone to have healthcare, he said, except the term is often used by lawmakers for “another agenda” which is “the main agenda, which is abortion.”

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 2, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – “I am a mass murderer,” a former abortionist who is now pro-life told a U.S. House committee yesterday as she testified in favor of legislation banning abortions on babies with beating hearts.

Dr. Kathi Aultman, a board certified Ob/Gyn and a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), bluntly told this to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Wednesday as it discussed the Heartbeat Protection Act of 2017.

The text of the bill is simple, though its implications are profound. H.R. 490says, in full:

This bill amends the federal criminal code to make it a crime for a physician to knowingly perform an abortion: (1) without determining whether the fetus has a detectable heartbeat, (2) without informing the mother of the results, or (3) after determining that a fetus has a detectable heartbeat.

It provides an exception for an abortion that is necessary to save the life of a mother whose life is endangered by a physical (but not psychological or emotional) disorder, illness, or condition.

VIRGINIA, October 19, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Ads for the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor depict an abortion activist as a “regular” voter.

Ralph Northam, the current Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, is competing against pro-life Republican Ed Gillespie to be the commonwealth’s next governor.

Erin Matson, the co-founder of Reproaction, appears in two ads for Northam that criticize Gillespie for his pro-life views.

“Ed Gillespie wants to end a woman’s right to choose,” the ad “Want to See” says as Matson sits on a porch with her small daughter. The ad says Gillespie wants the “government in charge of women’s personal decisions,” not mentioning that these “decisions” involve the killing of a tiny human being.

Matson and her daughter also appear at the end of the pro-Northam ad “Sold,” which doesn’t mention abortion. (read on)